English born theoretical physicist who shared the 1933 Nobel Prize in physics with Erwin Schrödinger for his contributions to the development of quantum theory and its relation to relativity theory. In 1930 Dirac also proposed the existence of the "positron," a positively charged particle with the same mass as the negatively charged electron. It was discovered experimentally in 1932.
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